Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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